This 1939 photo provided by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin shows Vivien Leigh, as Scarlett O'Hara, and co-star Clark Gable in Gone With The Wind. (AP Photo/The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin)

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Vivien Leigh: “The essence of English womanhood,” as a poet laureate once said, or a bisexual adulterer with a taste for male prostitutes? The latter, according to an upcoming biography of the Gone With the Wind actress. Throughout Leigh’s marriage to Laurence Olivier, she cheated on him with men and women, and routinely drove down to a Los Angeles brothel to pick up “street boys” and pay them with cigarette cases and jewels, write Darwin Porter and Roy Moseley in Damn You, Scarlett O’Hara.

In addition to three lesbian flings, the book claims Leigh had affairs with co-stars Marlon Brando and Rex Harrison. "Today, she would be diagnosed as bipolar and there are drugs that would help," a source tells the Daily Mail. "But in those days people did not know how to deal with a star who tore off all her clothes and ran out of her house."

For years the casting of "Gone With The Wind" was criticized because after all,how in the world could Scarlett be turned off by Clark Gable? Now we know. :)

BOBeeeee

Jun 4, 2014 11:29 PM CDT

Laurence Olivier was Gay. His lover was Danny Kaye so why not a marriage of convenience for both Olivier and Leigh.

JenniferLynne

Aug 30, 2010 8:56 PM CDT

Another garbage "biography" about a dead celebrity who can't defend themself. Another sensational bio with very little basis in fact that has to come up with a new angle to sell copies because all the truth has been written in other biographies. We all know she was bipolar. The rest is just ridiculous (except the affair with Peter Finch which was discussed in other books - including Laurence Oliviers autobiography. Even Marlon Brando himself denied an affair with her. Her other "hookup" - with John Merivale - happened after her divorce). I hope her daughter Suzanne sues the pants off the author. Disgraceful!